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" I am neither pro- nor anti-gun. I am gun-conscious. "

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" Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start a revolution, and bravely go forward. "

" As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it. "

" Ramones music has a Pavlovian effect on me - the song starts, and the world blurs around the sound. "

" With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal. "

" Airports in major cities, like LAX, are trippy environments. It is at once a national and international gathering of those in transition: The euphoric, emerging from planes, their journey at an end, and the determined, about to depart. "

" I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else. "

" Let's pretend my career in music is a bell. Whether you like my music or not is up to you. But you've got to admit I rang that bell pretty hard and pretty often. "

" I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity. "

" As the middle class is predated upon with an ever greater malicious intensity, their children stand to lose more and harder than their parents ever did. "

" And I love the hate mail I get, the unsigned, misspelled letters I get telling me to go back to Russia or wherever. "

" There is a lot to say about what Bikini Kill and other 'riot grrrl' bands were able to achieve when they first set out. They were not some momentary, convulsive, creative spasm of independent music. There was a very real, relevant point of view being expressed. "

" I don't think you'll ever have a perfect world because we humans are prone to error, and so we're always in search of an upgrade. "

" Try driving the streets of Los Angeles without seeing a billboard depicting a film with a lead actor holding a gun. It's almost as if guns are harmless props used to bring out the cheekbones and jawline of the screen star. "

" We city dwellers, we residents of Los Angeles and the surrounding areas, are for the most part urbanized to some extent. We know deadlines, start times and traffic. "

" I have not the smarts or patience for political office. "

" I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much. "

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" With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad. "

" I'm not harmful, just introspective. You can probably think I'm weird, but it's not harmful weird. "

" The more I learn about Mr. Romney, the less there is to admire. "

" If I'm jetlagging, and I've missed some meals, and it gets to that point in a movie that you're supposed to cry, I'll let my defences down from around my inherent standing level of cynicism, and I'll cry. "

" More than 30 years ago, in Washington, D.C., I secured a copy of a single by a Los Angeles band called The Bags. The two-song 7-inch, released on Dangerhouse, had a girl on the cover who looked right at you with huge eyes. The songs, 'Survive' and 'Babylonian Gorgon,' were great and made many of my mix tapes. "

" I think Perry Ferrell put independent music on a very good path with Lollapalooza. "

" The number of people who are actual supporters of Mr. Romney could very well be less than the Donner Party, whose members they sadly resemble in many ways. "

" I don't mean to be arrogant and I really appreciate my fans but talking about what I am doing is not something I'm good at. I do what I do and that's it. I want to get back to my work and do more of it instead of talking about it. "

" If I hear, 'Be afraid of Tehran,' I'm like, 'I'd better go to Tehran.' "

" I'd love to talk to Janeane Garafalo or Randi Rhodes or Stephanie Miller from Air America. I'm an Air American junkie; I listen to them every day. "

" But I have a good life. I enjoy what I do. I am married to work. "

" I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up. "

" Trayvon Martin did not need to die. "

" The public library system of the United States is worth preserving. "